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1 Architecture tours help us learn about where we live and who we are Travel and Recreation
Who knew that situational awareness of your own backyard could be so entertaining? Taking part in "Greatest Hits: Chart-toppers and Heart Stoppers," one of many guided tours offered by the Seattle Architecture Foundation, I learned to stand still and just look.
1/13/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 It's raining, it's boring — what to do? Let the games begin Travel and Recreation
As a schoolboy, Scott Cooper would sit with his buddies at recess, back to the wall, arranging marbles in patterns meant to entice passers-by. Like a carnival hawker, he'd invite kids to knock his marbles out of bounds. If they missed, he took their marble. If they didn't miss, they got his.
11/5/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 Fremont's bridgetenders juggle vessels and vehicles Travel and Recreation
Mistake number one: He's under sail, not using the motor. Mistake number two: He hasn't requested an opening, and the mast looks a tad too tall for the Fremont Bridge's 30-foot clearance.
8/7/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 Meet the maintenance man who walks the Space Needle's halo Travel and Recreation
June brings the start of Seattle's tourist season. Perhaps the busiest camera-clicking location in town is hundreds of feet in the air: the Space Needle's observation deck. Up there, visitors' eyes will open widest when they spy one of the rooftop crew that keeps the Needle looking sharp.
6/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 Q&A with a Washington State Ferries captain Travel and Recreation
Puget Sound is home to the cheapest regularly scheduled scenic-cruise fleet around: Washington State Ferries. Go as a walk-on passenger on a sunny day whenever you need a reminder of why you live in the Pacific Northwest. Here's a Q&A with a ferry captain on "How It's Done."
3/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 Horse-and-carriage services offer unique city ride Travel and Recreation
An iconic Christmas carol describes the joy of "dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh," but here in the lowlands, we don't (often) have much snow, and sleighs are even rarer. However, we do have some really big horses and ornate carriages that offer holiday rides in downtown Seattle.
12/18/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 Boo! Ghost tours and more at Seattle's Museum of the Mysteries Travel and Recreation
Tales of a woman in white floating near a stairway. Empty bathrooms locking from the inside. A poker game calling forth the spirit of a long-dead bon vivant.
10/30/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 Uncovering the "ooh-ah" factor of fall leaves Travel and Recreation
Outside my window is a tree, a maple of some kind. I'm always taken by surprise when, out of nowhere, one leaf turns suddenly lipstick red, garish and outnumbered by its green comrades.
9/25/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 Kite afficionados have the world by a string Travel and Recreation
I know better now, but before I got educated, a kite was nothing more than frustration on a string, robotically attracted to telephone lines, treetops and nightmarish nosedives into the ground. With a little knowledge, even I can go tako kichi — Japanese for "kite crazy.
8/14/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 Lion dancing and dragon dancing: strength, precision and a lot of running around Travel and Recreation
They're the stars of Lunar New Year celebrations and thrill bystanders during Seafair parades: those superb athletes who undulate beneath fabric and the head of a fearsome creature, performing the Chinese lion dance, and its more familiar cousin, the dragon dance.
7/17/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 Celebrating the fun of freedom at Fremont Solstice Parade Travel and Recreation
In honor of the longest day of the year, Seattle's Fremont neighborhood lives up to its self-anointed claim as the center of the universe by hosting the Fremont Solstice Parade, with giant puppets, exotic dancers and merry mayhem. Hard to believe, but Saturday marks the 20th parade.
6/19/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 Ben Willard: The International Fountain's Neptune Travel and Recreation
Built in 1962 for the Seattle World's Fair, the fountain has always been a community gathering place — even more so after a 1995 makeover made it more accessible and exciting.
5/21/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 Staff at Ballard Locks are key players in a smooth boating season Travel and Recreation
With boating season upon us, it's always entertaining to watch the action at Ballard's Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. What looks like semi-chaos is carefully choreographed by expert "lock-wall" staff while a lockmaster orchestrates and pulls levers in his tower — averaging 35 "lockings" a day.
5/1/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 Growing those flowers that make the festival Travel and Recreation
"The history of the tulip is filled with intrigue, skulduggery, thievery, instant fortunes and broken hearts." — from www.tesselaar.net.au, the Web site for Australia's Tesselaar Bulb Co. Unless you're into them, I'll bet you had no idea that the seemingly demure tulip is a seductress.
3/27/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 The sweetest chocolate spots Travel and Recreation
These are two components in chocolate — theobromine, which affects mood, and PEA (phenethylamine), acting perhaps as an aphrodisiac. Not everyone agrees. Some cupid-grounding scientists think levels of these chemicals found in a few pieces of chocolate are not potent enough to flutter hearts.
2/14/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 Maybe the U is for "unique" - and "undiscovered" Travel and Recreation
Rare is it, to find a line so clearly drawn, a cultural DMZ, as exists in Seattle's University District along University Way. Life on "the Ave" north of Northeast 50th Street is quite different from that which lies south.
1/31/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 Snohomish | Getting away from it all, except the charming bits Travel and Recreation
If you need to purchase gifts or seek relief from same, here's an idea: Spend a day in the postcard-pretty town of Snohomish. Within easy strolling distances, there's lots to do, see, buy, eat and drink. Just for instance:
12/13/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 Belltown | A daylight visit to Seattle's haven of hip Travel and Recreation
So it was about 9 a.m. when I arrived by bus at Third Avenue and Bell Street in downtown Seattle. Awfully early to be doing this, but at least I had decent weather — chill blue skies, air filled with tornadic swirls of red and yellow leaves.
11/29/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 Bothell: A friendly "small town" that wants to stay that way Travel and Recreation
The thing about Bothell: It's easy to miss if you are, as I was, swept up in heavy traffic on State Route 527 that was hellbent on going somewhere else, so I shot past the town center and had to make a big hairy turnaround. I'm glad I made the effort.
10/11/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
20 An audience with Boeing's prophet of profit: The 787 Dreamliner Travel and Recreation
EVERETT — We entered the sacred domain of engineers, those fussy masters of extreme precision. On a pilgrimage to Boeing's Everett assembly plant, we came from around the world. I know this because there's a map on the wall with pins that show where visitors are from.
9/6/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results